MODERN LITERAL VERSION

21:1 And he looked up and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
21:2 And he also saw a certain poor widow casting two bronze-coins in there.
21:3 And he said, Truly I say to you*, This poor widow cast in more-than they all.
21:4 For* all these cast into the gifts of God out of what is abounding to them, but she cast in out of her deficit, all the livelihood that she had.
{Lk 21:5-24 & Mt 24:1-28 & Mk 13:1-23 Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. See also: Lk 19:41-44 & Lk 23:28-31.}

21:5 And as some spoke about the temple, how it was adorned with good stones and votive-offerings, he said,
21:6 As for these things which you* are viewing, the days will come, in which one stone will not be left here upon another stone, that will not be torn-down.

21:7 And they asked him, saying, Therefore teacher, when will these things be? And what will be the sign whenever these things are about to happen?

21:8 And he said, Beware you* are not misled; for* many will come in my name, saying, I am he, and, The time has drawn near. You* therefore, do not go after them.
21:9 And whenever you* hear of wars and unrest, do not be terrified; for* it is necessary for these things to happen first, but the end is not immediately here.

21:10 Then he said to them, Nation will arise against nation and kingdom against kingdom;
21:11 and there will be great earthquakes in different places and famines and plagues. There will be both terrors and great signs from heaven.
21:12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands upon you* and will persecute you*, giving you* up to the synagogues and prisons, leading you * before kings and governors because of my name.
21:13 But it will transpire into a testimony for you*.
21:14 Therefore lay it into your* hearts, not to meditate beforehand how to make a defense.
21:15 For* I will give you* a mouth and wisdom, which all who lay in opposition to you* will not be able to withstand nor to speak against.
21:16 But you* will be given up even by parents and brethren and relatives and friends, and they will put to death some out of you*.
21:17 And you* will be hated by all men because of my name.
21:18 And a hair out of your* head may never* perish.
21:19 You* will procure your* souls in your* endurance.

21:20 But whenever you* behold Jerusalem surrounded by encamped armies, then know that her desolation has drawn near.
21:21 Then let those who are in Judea escape to the mountains, and let those who are in the midst of her vacate, and do not let those who are in the country enter in it.
21:22 Because these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
21:23 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing in those days! For* a great calamity will be upon the land and wrath among this people.
21:24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword and will be captured into all the nations and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles should be fulfilled.
{Lk 21:25-28 & Mt 24:29-51 & Mk 13:24-37 & 2Th 1:7-9 Second Coming.}

21:25 And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and dismay of nations upon the earth, in perplexity from the noise of the sea and the billows;
21:26 men passing-out from fear and expectation of the things which are coming on the inhabited-earth; for* the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
21:27 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
21:28 But when these things are beginning to happen, stand-erect and lift up your* heads, because your* redemption is drawing near .
{Lk 21:29-33 & Mt 24:32-35 & Mk 13:28-31 Destruction of Jerusalem AD 70.}

21:29 And he spoke to them a parable: Behold the fig tree and all the trees.
21:30 Whenever they already cast forth leaves, you* know from looking at them yourselves that the summer is already near.
21:31 So also you*, whenever you* behold these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.
21:32 Assuredly I say to you*, This generation may never* pass away, until all things should happen.
21:33 The heaven and the earth will pass away, but my words may never* pass away.
{Lk 21:34-36 & Mt 24:36-44 & Mk 13:32-37 Second Coming.}

21:34 But take-heed to yourselves, lest your* hearts might be burdened with a hangover and drunkenness and anxieties of everyday life and that day might suddenly stand upon you*;
21:35 for* it will come like a snare upon all those sitting upon the face of all the earth.
21:36 Therefore watch in every season, beseeching, that* you* might be deemed worthy to escape all the things which are about to happen and to stand in front of the Son of Man.
{Mk 11:19-26 & Mt 21:20-22 & Lk 21:37-38 Road from Bethany to Jerusalem Tues.}

21:37 And every day he was teaching in the temple, and every night he went out and camped in the mountain that is called Olives.
21:38 And all the people came at daybreak to hear him in the temple.
{Mk 14:1-2 & Mt 26:1-5 & Lk 22:1-2 mountain Olives, Bethany, Jerusalem, Tues. Evening, Wed. for the Jews.}